Štefan Marko Daxner

Štefan Marko Daxner

Štefan Marko Daxner (born December 26, 1822 in Tisovec , Gemer and Kleinhont County , Austrian Empire ; † April 11, 1892 ibid) was a Slovak politician, writer and publicist of the so-called Štúr generation.

Life

Štefan Marko Daxner was born into an old noble family who emigrated from Switzerland to the Kingdom of Hungary in the 14th century. He attended an elementary school in Tisovec, then Latin grammar schools in Ožďany , Zipser Neudorf and later in Rosenau , an evangelical lyceum in Pressburg and a legal lyceum in Eperies , before taking his bar exam in Pest in 1846 .

During the revolution of 1848/49 he was a political activist and campaigned for Slovak self-esteem; he was one of the leading figures in the great national assembly in Liptov-Saint Nicholas and contributed significantly to the national program Žiadosti slovenského národa (Requirements of the Slovak Nation), which was proclaimed in May 1848 . For his activities he was imprisoned and sentenced to death in October 1848, but escaped execution. He was released from prison in January 1849 and then took part as a captain in the anti-Hungarian Slovak uprising .

After the suppression of the revolution he worked as a deputy, adviser and judge at the courts in Rimaszombat , Nagykalló and Debrecen and was from 1861-65 second subordinate of Gemer and Kleinhont counties . At the same time he continued to devote himself to the Slovak national movement. He contributed significantly to another national assembly in June 1861 in Turz-St. Martin and then on the program Memorandum národa slovenského ( Memorandum of the Slovak Nation ), which was presented to the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna. He was also one of the leading personalities and supporters of the Slovak high school in Revúca , which had existed since 1862 , before it was closed again by the Hungarian authorities in 1874.

From 1872 until his death he managed his family property in Tisovec. Today his remains are buried at the Martin National Cemetery.

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Daxner wrote his first literary works in the Bratislava Lyceum, where it was mainly ballads and smaller prose works. He later collected Slovak folk tales published in the Codex tisovecký . In the later years he wrote mostly political works. However, a larger collection of his journalistic works did not appear until post mortem in 1958.

• 1861 - Hlas zo Slovenska (voice from Slovakia)
• 1958 - V službe národa (In national service)

Web links

• Štefan Marko Daxner on osobnosti.sk (Slovak)
• Digitized works by Štefan Marko Daxner (Slovak)
• Personalities of the city of Tisovec (Slovak)